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The number of tourists stayed overnight in accommodation establishments in the Netherlands, in 2014 for the fifth consecutive year has increased. The increase was mainly due to foreign tourists. About 14 million people visited the country to spend one or more nights there. That were 8.9 percent more than in 2013. This growth of inbound tourism was the largest of all European countries.

This is evidentfromtheTuesdayTrendreportTourism, recreationandleisure2015. The reportwas drawn up byCBS, leisure organizationsNRITMedia,CELTHNBCTHollandandMarketing.

The total came the number of tourists in the Netherlands last year stood at 35.9 million. That represents an increase of 5.3 percent compared to 2013.

Growth Continues
In 2015 continued the growth the number of foreign guests there in hotels, guesthouses, youth hostels, group accommodation and staying at campsites, further. In the first six months of this year there expecting 7.1 percent more foreign visitors than in the same period in 2014.

With 11.3 percent grew the number of German holidaymakers the most of any countries. Together with Belgium (+ 9.3 percent) and the UK (+ 10.5 percent city), these countries accounted for more than half of the foreign tourists who came to the Netherlands.

Holidays within Netherlands
Local Focus has the most popular destinations in their own country, broken down by put (residential) province in a row. What we notice? The province Gelderland is the hotspot when it comes to domestic holidays: in 2014 visited a total of 2.9 million Dutch for a short or long break.

Limburgwith over twomilliondomestic visitors, the second most popularprovince.